Gong Yu is inconvenient to stay, when he leaves, please ask Ye Jiuqing to take care of Gong Jue, Ye Jiuqing reassured her, if people are handed over to him, he will treat Gong Jue as his nephew and send Gong Yu away, Ye Jiuqing asked me and Gong Jue not to go back to the Sifang pawnshop, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and the reappearance of the feather dragon pattern must not take long to spread.

The scene of the pawnshop in the four directions is too big, and the people who come in and out are mixed with three sects and nine streams of dragons and snakes, and it is inevitable that there will be many people, and if you want to find such a big treasure as the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, the fewer people who know me and the palace lord, the better.

Ye Jiuqing asked me to take the palace lord back to the east mansion of the city, I have been living there since I was a child, although it is Ye Jiuqing's house, but generally no one goes.

In the evening, I took the palace lord back, and I saw the lights on the hill behind the house from afar, it seems that Feng Cheng has notified Ye Zhiqiu, the attempted theft of such a large ancient tomb is not a trivial matter, the police have blocked the entrance and exit, and all the people who enter and exit are people from the archaeological institute, and it is estimated that Ye Zhiqiu should still be busy on it.

There are three rooms in the house, one is Ye Zhiqiu's, and the other is Ye Jiuqing's, he will only come back to live for three days on the sixth day of September every year, and never come here at other times, but no one is allowed to enter his room, this is Ye Jiuqing's thunder pool, and no one can trespass.

Even Ye Zhiqiu, who was regarded as a treasure by him, might still be able to nod his head if he wanted the stars in the sky, but when he entered this room, Ye Zhiqiu said that he would turn his face, I remember that when I was a child, I was a thief, and I asked Ye Zhiqiu to sneak in to see what was inside, and Ye Jiuqing found out before he went in.

Ye Jiuqing slapped her in the face, this is the only time I saw Ye Jiuqing hit her, that time really scared me, I have never seen Ye Jiuqing make such a big fire, even Ye Zhiqiu He can start beating me, let alone me who signed the decision, but Ye Jiuqing didn't say a word about me, but I also knew the severity, and I never approached his room half a step since.

The rest was my room, and there was no extra room for the palace lord to live, and even if the two of us were reluctant, we would have to squeeze into the same bed.

The palace lord was still thinking about the lacquered wooden box that I took from him, I have been wondering what is so strange about this box for the past three days, I closed the door and handed the box to him, the palace lord took the box and looked at it carefully for a long time, the seals around the box were sealed by Lanjin fire paint, and there was a small and delicate lock in front.

Ye Jiuqing said that this thing is extremely important, related to the rumors of treasures that have been circulating for thousands of years, this is the only clue so far, I am worried that there will be damage if I open it rashly, so I have not dared to touch this box.

Gong Jue repeatedly studied for a long time, confidently pulled down a hair, overlapped and slowly probed into the lock heart, I just wanted to speak was glared at, it was a signal for me to be quiet, he turned his head sideways and put his ears close to the lock, it seemed that even breathing became slow and regular, and I didn't dare to breathe next to me.

Gong Jue's hand turned slowly, and after a while, I saw the corners of his mouth curled, and then gently pulled the lock and it was really opened by his hair, he looked up at me proudly, although my expression was disapproving, but I still admired it in my heart, no wonder Gong Yu would respect him, it seems that Gong Jue does have a few brushes in his hands.

Until now, I still feel that the rumors of the Nine Dragons Boat in the Moon Palace are too absurd and bizarre, and even a little untrue, after all, in my imagination, it is difficult to imagine what a treasure ship full of treasures and pulled by nine feathered dragons to soar in the night sky is like, but even people like Ye Jiuqing who have seen the world are convinced and have spent their lives exploring, and when I saw Gong Jue open the box, curiosity drove me to sit down.

The palace lord carefully used his knife to remove the Rankin around the box, and the slowly opened box almost held my breath, with an inexplicable excitement like never before, and then we saw an oval-shaped bronze object placed in the box.

The bronze was densely engraved with words, most of which I didn't know with the palace lord, I gently took it in my hand and looked at it for a long time, and when my hand touched the words, I accidentally found that these words could be turned.

I found out that the bronze is divided into nine rings from top to bottom, each layer can be rotated left and right, and those words are engraved on these bronze rings, what I learned with Zhao Yan is now finally useful, from the shape and texture of this bronze has a long history, the earliest can be traced back to the middle of the Warring States period.

But it feels very light in my hand, it can be seen that this bronze is not solid, there should be something in it, I just shook it in my hand, and I was held by the palace lord next to me and held my wrist tightly.

"This object is called Chongming Ring, Chongming is the meaning of Chongming Bird, it is rumored that this bird has double pupils, can distinguish good from evil, evil spirits dare not approach its body, the reason why it is called Chongming Ring, is that this thing must be opened in the right way." Gong Jue carefully took back the Chongming Ring from my hand and said to me seriously.

"What happens if I make a mistake?" I'm very new to mechanics, so I asked disapprovingly.

"I've also heard the master mention the Chongming Ring, which is an extremely exquisitely designed lock, but it has been lost for thousands of years, and the wonderful thing about this thing is that each of the upper and lower nine rings must correspond to the correct position before the Chongming Ring will be opened." Gong Jue said to me excitedly. "If you force it open, the mechanism inside will be triggered, and the Chongming Bird is also called the Firebird, and this mechanism contains fire phosphorus, which will be released when the mechanism is triggered, and it will instantly burn and burn the contents in the friction."

"And how do you open this thing to be right?" I asked.

Gong Jue shook his head after studying for a long time, saying that it should be related to the words on the nine bronze rings, and he deduced that only the correct combination of words could open the Chongming ring, but he didn't know any of these words.

I recognized it under the lamp for a long time, and slowly remembered that Feng Cheng had taught me that these words were golden inscriptions, which referred to the inscriptions cast on the bronzes of the Yin and Zhou dynasties, also called Zhong Dingwen.

After the Qin Dynasty unified the world, the edict required the book to be the same text, and the words used were all small seals, and the inscriptions were no longer engraved on the bell ding, so the golden text gradually declined, and there are very few people who can know these words today.

"You have been in the ancient tomb in the back mountain, when do you think it is the tomb?" I asked thoughtfully.

"Warring States period." Gong Jue didn't even think of a very positive answer. "The structure of the tomb is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, it is funnel-shaped, there are two coffins and a coffin in the tomb, the outer coffin is filled with soil, and the inner coffin is placed with cinnabar, which is a typical Warring States tomb, and the lacquered wooden box is found from the tomb owner, and is held in front of his chest with both hands."

According to the description of the palace jue, with the addition of the heavy ring and the structure of the tomb, it is completely certain that this is the ancient tomb of the Warring States Period, but Zhao Yan recognized that the fire paint on the lacquered wooden box was Rankin, which appeared in the Western Han Dynasty and was an extremely precious thing at that time.

Ke Lanjin only existed in the Western Han Dynasty for less than 50 years before disappearing, the palace lord has already determined that the owner of this tomb is the Warring States Period with the country's doctor Deng Yan, the estimation time as early as the Western Han Dynasty more than 200 years ago, I have always wondered how the Western Han Dynasty's Lanjin appeared in the Warring States tomb two hundred years ago.

Deng Yan still hugged this box tightly after his death, presumably there should be more important secrets hidden in the Chongming Ring, but the palace lord was not sure to open the Chongming Ring, unless he first figured out the content of the golden inscriptions engraved on the Chongming Ring.

I think Feng Cheng should know him if he is knowledgeable, but Ye Jiuqing told him not to go back to the pawnshop in the four directions, these words are very important, and I dare not let outsiders read them casually, and I can't find a suitable person after thinking about it.

When I was anxious, I suddenly heard a knock on the door outside the house, Gong Jue and I were stunned, no one usually comes here, and Gong Jue was alert and wanted to put away the heavy ring.

I opened the door and saw the dusty Ye Zhiqiu standing outside, I hadn't seen her for a long time, her delicate facial features were full of intellectual arrogance, holding a bunch of books in her chest with both hands, she was startled when she saw me, and it took a long time to ease up.

"How did you get back...... Who beat you like this? ”

I guess she didn't recognize me at first sight, and I really regret that I should have buried the palace lord in the first place.

As soon as the anger came up, when I saw Ye Zhiqiu, my eyes suddenly lit up, how could I forget her, how many people who study archaeology will come into contact with Jin Wen, I don't expect her to be proficient, but at least I can slowly identify it.